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http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=756

Steven Shaviro just posted a very cool critique of the “mythology” of self-organization and draws a number of surprising connections between the popular “Gaia Hypothesis,” Friedrich Hayek, and even Brian Eno. As a general remark, I think there is definitely a case to be made about the intimate link between structure, aesthetics, philosophy, and political organization, and this post does a great job of tying all of these topics together in a coherent manner. I’d also like to note that one intriguing alternative to the Leninist Vanguard Party model (itself the opposite of spontaneous self-organization) is Kojin Karatani’s semi-lattice structure.